Have decided to start tomorrow morning in a very chill manner by doing an Ask Me Anything on Reddit about my OnlyFans book. Is this a good idea? Will the internet be mercilessly unkind? Will anyone even ask a question at all? Let's find out, shall we. imgur.com/a/iQ1ko6G

IAmA proof: u/emvdn_researcher

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Filming a Get Ready With Me video to introduce my students to Social Media Lab... turns out moisturising, cleansing, AND remembering the key critical questions of the unit is hard work, who knew! (influencers knew)

This really sums up why we need internet anonymity.

The least helpful sign in Box Hill: asks you to go find a shop that hasn't been there for years to locate the lift to a bus

Well unfortunately I giggled all the way through Ladies First so maybe I've got terrible taste or maybe movies should just be fun sometimes, who knows

Please, AI slop scammers, there's no need to run my new book's blurb through whatever program you're using and promise me "discoverability" "opportunities". I wrote my book for human people to read. Would love to talk to human journalists/writers/podcasters/interviews! But not... this.

I don't want to Edit an Image With AI, I want to CROP THE SCREENSHOT dammit

I'll be talking porn, OnlyFans, automated people, and automated customisations at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas this August 💕🖱️✨👩‍💻👉👌 festivalofdangerousideas.com/program/porn...

*CFP* Digital Intimacies 12: Intimately Disconnected considers what remains of digital intimacies when we are digitally disconnected. Keynote: Dr Tingting Liu, University of Technology Sydney Conference: 4-5 Dec 2026@USyd CFP closes: 28 Aug 2026 digitalintimacies12.wordpress.com

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Digital Intimacies 12 is at the University of Sydney this year from 4-5 Dec! Submit your abstracts on the (broad) theme of Intimately Disconnected by 28 Aug. Digital Intimacies is such a wonderful and generous gathering of scholars - get along if you can 👩‍💻✨💕🖱️💌 digitalintimacies12.wordpress.com

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There's a sale on at Booktopia that includes my & Kat's book at 90% off, so if you are in Australia and want to get Sex and Social Media for FOUR Australian dollarydoos, the time is now www.booktopia.com.au/societynow-e...

First minor Instagram suspension for posting about a book I wrote. This is going to be an interesting social media case study, actually - how to post about a book on OnlyFans, titled, "OnlyFans" with the kind of content moderation challenges faced by OnlyFans creators all the time

The cover image isn't up yet, which makes it look like the cover art is too NSFW to be displayed (it isn't), but my book has a page on The Internet! www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

The latest in the constant race to optimise recipe websites for maximum datafied attention metrics: requiring a whole ass user account for the privilege to open the recipe in print view so you can see it without a hundred popups crowding your screen

Finding out that some universities* are cancelling classes next week because of the Canvas outage: @dangolding.com "I'm sure there will be absolutely no reflection on what this means for our teaching's dependency on external platforms though" *not Monash, we use Moodle

Sorry friends - I have not been DMing anyone over the past few days! Just changed my password and enabled 2-factor authentication 😬 hopefully that does it

Hello friends just an fyi that @emvdn.bsky.social’s account has been hacked, in case you weren’t sure if she was really into crypto all of a sudden

I booked tickets. I invited my mum and sister. I prepaid for a city carpark. I took the toll road from work to the city. I planned to meet for ramen so we'd make the show on time. I parked my car and got a text that the SHOW WAS CANCELLED (not Reuben Kaye's fault feel better soon king)

Me when I make Same Lasagne as Last Night but Now With Side Salad

Hello Bluesky friends, I wrote a book about OnlyFans that is coming out SOON. Would you use this book as a set reading in your course/unit/subject? Would you like an inspection copy? Let me know! I'm thinking media studies (especially social media/internet studies), sociology, gender studies etc

hey Victorian renters! if you've used 'RentTech' (think online application platforms, rent payment apps, property management portals), please spend ~5 minutes to share your experience in this survey to contribute to important @cprc-research.bsky.social research: cprc.limesurvey.net/594888?lang=en

📘New Report: Young Australians’ perspectives on the social media minimum age legislation📘 With the #socialmediaban for teens kicking in on 10 December, hearing their perspectives on it, and social media generally, is so vital! 💡 Read the full report here: doi.org/10.60836/tr3...

So happy, and a bit overwhelmed, to find out my DECRA project, 'Social, ethical and regulatory challenges in the social media porn industry', has been awarded. What an immense privilege to have the next three years to dedicate to research!

"Mum having her coffee", a portrait by my 3 yr old

So glad to have been part of the UQ symposium 'darkness to hyper-visibility' Really rich, thoughtful work from scholars of creator visibilities, a wonderful keynote on platform epistemologies from Kelley Cotter, and the opportunity to present my own work on OnlyFans

I kind of can't wait to tell my dentist I chipped a tooth while flossing. YOU SUGGESTED THIS WOULD BENEFIT MY DENTAL HEALTH KEITH

This weekend I'm MCing my first funeral (my grandfather died at 90 years old and I probably do the most public speaking in my family) and the next day hosting a baby shower for a friend. LIFE HEY.

"Once you’ve built the system to block kids from YouTube, you’ve built the system to block anyone from anything. And that system will be irresistible to future governments with different ideas about what content people need to be 'protected' from." — @mmasnick.bsky.social in @techdirt.com

Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube

Last fall, heavily influenced by Jonathan Haidt’s extremely problematic book, Australia announced that it was banning social media for everyone under the age of 16. This was already a horrifically …

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Pleased to be on a panel with Alita Brydon of Bad Dates of Melbourne to get into dating and digital intimacy today! 💕🖱️🍆👉👌✨💻 Creative Directions is our annual student-run festival of ideas at Monash and Hinge or Cringe is a chef's kiss of a panel title, I reckon.

It was incredible to watch this disaster unfold over several years: site owners increasingly competed for Google search traffic and placement in SERPs, abandoning every other avenue of reader engagement and retention, making their sites and the web worse. Then Google did this

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Hey is it bad if google AI search results stop people from leaving google dot com 99% of the time? All our news and information creators can survive just fine with one percent of their previous search traffic right? I’m sure it’s fine. www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...